Welcome to Celebrate Poe - and this is episode 353 - Loathsome Mass of Detestable PutridityHello, my name is George Bartley, and the Ghost of Mr. Poe is here right beside me. I hope you have listened to the previous episode for secti...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 352 - Poe’s Hoaxes, Part One Being April Fool’s day, today I want to look at Poe’s six hoax stories - in fact, Edgar Allan Poe approvingly called his time the “epoch of the hoax.” Even though P...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 351 - From Feast of Blood -This is the final episode of Celebrate Poe - at least for now - devoted to Varney the Vampire.   Now, as mentioned in a previous episode, the entire work spans 876 do...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Be Content to Suffer - This is episode 350 of Celebrate Poe - a bit of a milestone for this podcast.  And I must admit that when I started Celebrate Poe, I had no idea I would make it this far - and there is s...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - episode 349 - Varner (I mean, Varney) the VampireHope you have listened to episode 348 about Varney the Vampire but you might be asking yourself, How does Varney's sympathetic portrayal differ from other va...